BKB Naked Knuckle Boxing heads to Tijuana on Saturday, September 19, with a 12-fight BKB 59 card led by two world-title bouts at Auditorio Municipal. The occasion is the promotion’s first in Mexico and its first present staged exterior america and United Kingdom, with Zanfer Promotions serving as its native promotional associate.
Tijuana’s Julian “Pit Bull Jr” Fernandez will make the primary defence of his BKB Tremendous Cruiserweight World Championship in opposition to Britain’s Dan “Massive Pod” Podmore in the principle occasion. Mexico’s Cecy Ulloa then meets American fighter Andy “The CrAsian” Nguyen for the vacant BKB Tremendous Flyweight World Championship within the co-main occasion.
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Fernandez enters his hometown headline struggle unbeaten at 3-0 with three knockouts, based on BKB’s introduced card. His title-winning efficiency got here in opposition to England’s Alex Wilson, whom Fernandez stopped with a proper hand to assert the belt. The September 19 bout places him in entrance of a Tijuana crowd for his first championship defence.
Podmore brings the deeper bare-knuckle resume. The British contender is listed at 9-4 with eight knockouts and is a former BKB champion throughout three weight divisions. The matchup pairs a champion whose three wins have all ended inside the gap with a challenger who has spent years competing at title degree within the promotion.
The second title struggle offers Ulloa an opportunity to change into the inaugural BKB Tremendous Flyweight World Champion. Ulloa, from Puerto Vallarta, is listed at 2-1 with one knockout. Nguyen, a South Carolina-based American referred to as “The CrAsian,” arrives for her second BKB title alternative, with studies itemizing her BKB mark as 1-1. The belt is vacant, so the winner leaves Tijuana as champion moderately than challenger.
Full BKB 59 card
The primary card contains 5 fights:
- Julian Fernandez vs. Dan Podmore for the BKB Tremendous Cruiserweight World Championship
- Cecy Ulloa vs. Andy Nguyen for the vacant BKB Tremendous Flyweight World Championship
- Romario Ovalle vs. Marco “Chino” Villa at tremendous middleweight
- Pablo Felipe Anguiano vs. Ricardo Ramses Rueda at cruiserweight
- Adrian Gonzalez vs. Javier Santiago Valverde at light-weight
The preliminary BKB 59 TikTok Particular Attraction Bouts: (TikTok.com/@bkbbareknuckle)
- Felipe Abraham Huerta vs. Erick Eduardo Soria at light-weight
- Jonathan Duran vs. Kevin Millan Sanchez at heavyweight
- Jesus Navarrete vs. Jose Munoz at heavyweight
- Jovani Misael Sanchez vs. Ramon Olivas at tremendous heavyweight
- Sergio Zarate vs. Rolando Parades at tremendous middleweight
- Jesus Rodriguez vs. Ricardo Ibarra at tremendous welterweight
- Eduardo Pineda Gonzalez vs. Mauricio Anaya at tremendous welterweight
As soon as the principle occasion concludes, BKB 59 will proceed with a seven-fight preliminary slate.
BKB introduced its Zanfer partnership on July 1, linking the bare-knuckle promotion with certainly one of Latin America’s most established boxing corporations. The association was launched as a multi-event plan moderately than a one-night deal, with future stay occasions, broadcast distribution and business alternatives in Latin America among the many acknowledged goals.
That makes BKB 59 greater than a cease on the schedule. Fernandez defending in his dwelling metropolis offers the primary Mexican occasion a neighborhood championship focus, whereas Ulloa’s title struggle locations a second Mexican athlete in a featured function. The present additionally brings BKB’s Trigon ring format to a rustic with an extended historical past in boxing and fight sports activities.
BKB 59 takes place at Auditorio Municipal in Tijuana on Saturday, September 19. The primary card begins at 6 p.m. PT, with the seven-fight preliminary card scheduled to run after the 2 title fights and the remainder of the main-card motion, referred to as the BKB 59 TikTok Particular Attraction Bouts.
